I don't want to post the pictures here because some are a little x-rated for the children. There is one where a bonobo is walking like a human, but I think that was the only one who was found to walk that way.
If this evolutionary scenario of ecological continuity is true, the bonobo may have undergone less transformation than either humans or chimpanzees. It could most closely resemble the common ancestor of all three modern species. Indeed, in the 1930s Harold J. Coolidge – the American anatomist who gave the bonobo its eventual taxonomic status – suggested that the animal might be most similar to the primogenitor, since its anatomy is less specialized than is the chimpanzee's. Bonobo body proportions have been compared with those of the australopithecines, a form of prehuman. When the apes stand or walk upright, they look as if they stepped straight out of an artist's impression of early hominids.
If the bonobo isn't the closet ancestor of humans, then which one is it?
2006-08-26
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